Head of Enterprise Data Platforms & Tech Strategy

SSE plc; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 81,000 - 121,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Performance bonus

Benefits package

Job summary

SSE plc is seeking a Head of Data Technologies & Platforms to lead group-wide data, analytics, data science, and information management capabilities. You will shape enterprise platforms, ensure security and resilience, and drive cost-effective services with strong Platform Engineering and DevSecOps practices.

Expect to lead cross-functional teams, manage tenancy strategies, and optimise licensing and cloud consumption while enabling business units with scalable data products and governance

Qualifications

• Significant senior leadership experience building or reshaping enterprise data/cloud platforms in a large organisation.
• Deep practical experience designing and operating modern cloud/hybrid data platforms in production.
• Broad experience across data platforms, analytics, data science, and related tooling.
• Strong track record establishing enterprise services, tenancy strategies and migrations.
• Experience embedding security, privacy, and automated governance in platform design.
• Excellent commercial and financial judgement across licensing, cloud consumption and supplier performance.

Responsibilities

• Set and execute the enterprise data technology and platform roadmap.
• Lead design, provisioning and configuration of data platform capabilities across lakes, storage, ingestion and analysis.
• Own lifecycle of platforms from evaluation to retirement and tenancy strategy.
• Deliver secure, resilient production services with Platform Engineering and DevSecOps practices.
• Establish reusable platform services and automated governance controls.
• Lead group-wide financial management of the data technology estate and total cost of ownership.

Skills

Senior leadership

Enterprise data platforms

Cloud data platforms

DataOps

DevSecOps

Observability

Cost management

Tools

Platform Engineering

Data lakes/Lakehouse

Data governance

FinOps

Job description

SSE plc is seeking a Head of Data Technologies & Platforms to lead group-wide data, analytics, data science, and information management capabilities. You will shape enterprise platforms, ensure security and resilience, and drive cost-effective services with strong Platform Engineering and DevSecOps practices.

Expect to lead cross-functional teams, manage tenancy strategies, and optimise licensing and cloud consumption while enabling business units with scalable data products and governance